Re: [PATCH V2] ovl: fsync after metadata copy-up via mount option "fsync=strict"

[Miklos Szeredi]

On Thu, 29 Aug 2024 at 12:29, Amir Goldstein <amir73il@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> But maybe we can ignore crash safety of metacopy on ubifs, because
> 1. the ubifs users may not be using this feature
> 2. ubifs may be nice and takes care of ordering O_TMPFILE
>     metadata updates before exposing the link
>
> Then we can do the following:
> IF (metacopy_enabled)
>     fsync only in ovl_copy_up_file()
> ELSE
>     fsync only in ovl_copy_up_metadata()
>
> Let me know what you think.

Sounds like a good compromise.

Thanks,
Miklos